Hale Smith
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Hale Smith (b. Cleveland, Ohio, June 29, 1925) is an American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor.
He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, graduating with a B.M. degree in 1950, and obtaining an M.M. in 1952. There, his instructors included Marcel Dick (composition), Ward Lewis (theory), Dorothy Price (piano), and Robert U. Nelson (calligraphy).
He moved to New York in 1958 and taught at C. W. Post College on Long Island, New York until 1970. He later taught at the University of Connecticut.
His awards include the first composition prize of BMI Student Composer Awards sponsored byBroadcast Music, Inc. (1952), the Cleveland Arts Prize (1973), and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1988).
He received an honorary doctorate from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1988.
[edit] References
- Breda, Malcolm Joseph. (1975). "Hale Smith: A Biographical and Analytical Study of the Man and His Music." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi.
- Caldwell, Hansonia La Verne (1975). "Conversation With Hale Smith, A Man of Many Parts." The Black Perspective in Music, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 59–76 (spring 1975).
